My little brother had his confirmation and I was the hostess at the party. Since I've been wearing only skirts for the last few years (exceptions being winter trousers and sweatpants) I decided to put on trousers. I've coveted every single pair of minishorts I've seen around the town, since it is impossible flash any R-rated parts with those (unlike with miniskirts, for example). Since I've been resiliently obliterating my fabric stashes and refused to buy new fabric, I dug up a suitable piece of brown linen.

The pattern is from a Finnish magazine, Suuri Käsityölehti, and if my memory serves me well, it was a pattern designed by a young designer (from 13 to 18 years old). In my honest opinion, the written part of the pattern was poorly done, but much to my surprise the pattern itself worked well enough to produce a functioning piece of clothing.

The trousers/shorts turned out to quite steampunkish/lederhosen goes linen -style. The high waist felt wonderful, especially since it fit quite perfectly. The linen fabric tends to wrinkle and crease at the waistline while sitting, though.About steampunk: check Regretsy.com. Absolutely splendid blog, where April Winchell presents some articles from etsy and writes about them in a less appropriate manner. I just had to read the whole contents of the blog, the writer's texts just tickle my fancy. (This I remember about steampunk, because in the blog you'll see that many people besides me are sticking steampunk-label on every damned project they can come up with.)

In its latest issue, Designer Knitting challenged its readers to sacrifice some of their time and yarn to help the small children born in the Aberdare Mountains of Kenya. Since hypothermia is a real threat for small children's survival in the developing countries and a notable amount of body heat is evaporated through the head, woolly hats and caps are an excellent way to offer support. The hats are distributed to those who need them via a Kenyan organization Flying Kites. As I contacted them, I was informed that the organization has no religious and political affiliation. They also added that more hats are still being accepted and needed and in any colour, warm material and infant size.The hats and caps can be sent to the address above.

This is a perfect leftover yarn project. I myself used up all my Gjestal Bris (black, white and blue yarn in the pic), Lanett (light and dark green yarn in the same stripe hat) and TeeTee Primavera (green yarn in the white stripe hat). I had only small amounts of these yarns that would've become nothing useful if it wasn't for this donation project.